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The International University Menendez Pelayo (UIMP) and the Phonetics Laboratory (CCHS) of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) have the honour of hosting the 21st celebratory Conference of the International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics (IAFPA) from Sunday 5 August to Thursday 8 August 2012 in Santander, Spain.

A special academic meeting, FonHispania 2012, will take place as a satellite session of the IAFPA Conference and will focus on 'Speech Perception and Speaker Identification,' a theme of great interest to those involved with forensic phonetics or with speech perception in general. The session will take place 8 August through 9 August 2012, following the IAFPA meeting.

The topics listed above are not a complete list, and other topics would be welcome if they promote the aims of IAFPA, which are to 'foster research and provide a forum for the interchange of ideas and information on practice, development and research in forensic phonetics and acoustics set down and enforce standards of professional conduct and procedure for those involved in forensic phonetic and acoustic casework'.

Please note that the official language of the conference is English.

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